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Monday, May 30, 2016

WHO condemnation of Israel based on blatant PA lies - Ari Yashar

by Ari Yashar

Investigation reveals singling out of Israel as only 'human rights violator' was based on PA report full of spurious claims, faked photos.

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health submitted a report
that was used in formulating the UN World Health Organization's (WHO)
discriminatory resolution last week, which singled out Israel as the world's only "health rights violator."

That report included numerous claims and photographs negatively
portraying Israel. There's just one problem - many of the pictures were
blatantly faked in an overt distortion of reality, and many of the
unfounded claims were patently false.

For example, the PA report claims Israel is "holding prisoners
in polluted areas, such as in the vicinity of the Dimona reactor or near
areas in which waste from that reactor has been buried."

It also alleges: "In April 2013 the Russian
newspaper Pravda accused Israel of injecting a number of Palestinian
prisoners who were approaching their release date with cancer-causing
viruses. Despite Israel’s rejection of the accusations made by the
newspaper, the question remains: is it true that Israel is injecting
prisoners with viruses?"

Another libelous claim is given from a Palestinian doctor, who
claimed Israel freezes terrorists' bodies and will only return them if
they are buried immediately in a manner that "makes it impossible to ascertain whether the deceased individual’s organs have been stolen."

But it was the picture section where the report truly shone in terms of blatant falsehoods.

On page 30 of the report a picture is presented showing a youth
lifted in the air and pulled between a group of religious Jewish youths
and Border Police officers. The PA defined the picture as presenting "settlers attacking a Palestinian child while being observed by Israeli occupation forces."

However, blogger Israellycool revealed two years ago when the
picture first began to circulate that it is a Getty Images picture from
2009 showing Jewish residents of Havat Gilad in Samaria being evicted -
no Palestinian Arabs are at all present in the picture.

Then in its claims regarding 2014 Operation Protective Edge, the
Palestinian Ministry of Health dug up a picture allegedly of an Israeli
fighter jet performing a bombing run on Gaza, with the caption:
"Photograph taken during the Israeli war on Gaza, 2014."

Here too the poorly Photoshopped image is not authentic by any
stretch of the imagination. Israellycool exposed it as a hoax back in
2014, when it was taken from a blog illustrating a story on how Israel
could potentially strike Iran's nuclear facilities. The PA erased the
mountains and a tall building from the illustrative picture to make it
look more similar to Gaza.

The report also uses photographs from Lebanon instead of Gaza in
making its spurious accusations about Protective Edge, and it also uses a
picture from Gaza dating back from 2012, passing it off as being from
the most recent war that Hamas initiated.

When the report delves into the current wave of Arab terrorism that
has raged since last September it maintains its libelous nature. One
picture presents terrorist Yasmin Tamimi as a "girl killed in cold blood."

CAMERA notes that the terrorist is not a "girl," and it is not even
clear she died. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights lists her as
being 20-years-old and does not claim she was killed. The radical
leftist group B'Tselem does not include her in its casualty list either.

Tamimi tried to stab a police officer after her engagement was
reportedly called off. She was shot and seriously wounded, but survived
and was evacuated for treatment at Jerusalem's Shaare Tzedek Hospital.

Another picture used to ostensibly show wounded terrorists from the
current terror wave dates back from at least 2009, according to the
blog.Ari YasharSource: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/212947#.V0s_ROSzdds Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.